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Summer 2009 :
From the Editor
A Response to Wordsworth’s ‘Bleak Season’ lyric
The President's Column: Rereading Nafisi in Evanston
Profile: Incoming Vice-President Greg Delanty
The Original Confessional (Almost) Tells All: An interview with W.D. Snodgrass
The 2009 ALSC Fund
Portrait of a Donor: Edwin A. Goodman
2009 ALSC Conference Program
Grad Student Spotlight: Farnoosh Fathi
News and Announcements
In Memoriam: Merrill Skaggs (1938-2008)
New Publications by Members
Councilor Profile: William Flesch
Letters to the Editor
Welcoming Our New Members
2009 Premium Membership Form
Winter-Spring 2009 :
From the Editors
The 2008 Presidential Address
The President's Column: "Ends and Beginnings"
Report on the Fourteenth Annual ALSC Conference
Call for Papers for the 15th Annual ALSC Conference
Report of the ALSC Nominations Committee
News & Announcements
In Memoriam
Susan Bullock (1959-2009)
Leila Hadley Luce (1925-2009)
Reginald Shepherd (1963-2008)
Councilor Profile: Rosanna Warren
The Restoration of James Agee’s A Death in the Family: Reconstructing the Model T
The Road Less Traveled: ALSC and Community Colleges
Councilor Profile: Susan Wolfson
A Letter from Paris: Jake Lamar: On Writing
Neglected Authors
A Neglected Poet: Weldon Kees
“I am a Cook Book.”
The Outsider Artist: New U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan.
At Home With Poems: Tips for homeschoolers, and all parents, on inspiring families with verse.
Reading for Children, Reading to Children
The Achievement of Susan Bullock
New Publications by Members
Portrait of a Donor: Frederick Iseman
The 2009 ALSC Fund
Welcoming Our New Members
2009 Premium Membership Form
Work Begins on ALSC-sponsored Project on High School Literature Curricula
Fall 2008 :
From the Editor
Edmund White,
Joyce Carol Oates, and
Literary Biography
The President's Column: "Poems from the Academy"
A Taste of Philadelphia—The Conference in Preview
2008 ALSC Conference Program
2008 ALSC Conference Notes
In Memoriam: Anthony Hilfer, Charles Vallely
From the GSL
News & Announcements
New Publications by Members
Learning to Read the World — WALTIC: The First
Ordinarily Professing: An Interview with Ernest Suarez
Snakes and Ladders, Truisms and Tropes
No Pink Elephants: On Reading to Children
American Life in Poetry: Column 183
The 2008 ALSC Annual Fund
2008 ALSC Membership Policies at a Glance
Welcoming Our New Members
2008 Premium Membership Form
Spring/Summer 2008 :
From the Editor
Welcoming Jhumpa Lahiri
The President's Column: "The Give and Take of Offense"
A More Forceful Recasting: The New Mission Statement of the ALSC
2008 ALSC Conference Program
2008 ALSC Conference Notes
A Letter from the President
Report of the ALSC Nominations Committee
Results of ALSC Election for 2009 Vice-President
Big Talk and Sung Stories: Two Poetry Reviews
New Publications by Members
Teaching Comparative Literature
American Life in Poetry
In Memoriam: Robert Fagles and Terence J. Spencer
From the GSL
Once More, with Feeling
News & Announcements
Our Distinguished Lifetime Members
Report of ALSC Nominations Committee
The 2008 ALSC Annual Fund
Welcoming Our New Members
2008 Premium Membership Form
Winter 2008 :
From the Editor
2007 Presidential Address:
"The Promised End: Why Literature Still Matters"
The President's Column: "How Not To..."
ALSC and the Internet
American Life in Poetry
Report on the Thirteenth Annual ALSC Conference
The 14th Annual Conference Call for Papers
A New Reading of Yeats' "A Prayer for my Daughter"
News & Announcements
The LI Report: Previously Unpublished Frost Talk
Ensures Tenth Volume Begins with a Bang
Report of ALSC Nominations Committee
Member Donates Nearly $10K in Appreciated Stock,
Hopes Others Will Follow
The 2007 ALSC Annual Fund
The 2008 ALSC Annual Fund
New Publications by Members
Welcoming Our New Members
Letters
2008 Premium Membership Form
Fall 2007:
From the Editor
Welcoming James Wood: "In Defence of Character"
The President's Column
ALSC and the Internet
The Thirteenth Annual Conference: A Preview
Panel Two: Poetry, Philosophy, Translation: Lucretius and
After
Panel Six: Poetry and Politics in the 1930s
Seminar One: Teaching the Great Books
The Chicago–Great Books Connection
Adeste, Lectores to the Second Annual ALSC Open-Mike
Conference Poster Session: College Board Committee Seeks
Input of ALSC Members
2007 Conference Program
2007 Conference Notes
2007 Conference Registration Form
Introducing Peter Campion
The LI Report: Stepping into the Wizard’s Cloak
New Publications by Members
News & Announcements
Introducing American Life in Poetry
American Life in Poetry: Column 126 [August 23, 2007]
From the GSL: A Quarterly Column by Jean Bocharova, ALSC Graduate Student Liaison
Letters
A Letter from Paris: "Ted Hughes Country"
Recognizing Our Circle of Friends
Welcoming Our New Members
2007 Officers, Council, and Standing Committees
Bylaws of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
2008 Officers, Council, and Standing Committees
ALSC Membership Policies at a Glance
2007 Premium Membership Form
Summer 2007:
From the Editor
ALSC and a Small Corner of the Post-Soviet Literary Scene
The President's Column
ALSC and the Internet
2007 Conference Schedule
2007 Conference Notes
ALSC and the Poetry Foundation:
Conference '07 Partnership Has Strategic Implications
2007 Conference Book Display
2007 Conference Registration Form
From the GSL: A Quarterly Column by Jean Bocharova, ALSC Graduate Student Liaison
New Publications by Members
News & Announcements
In Memoriam:Sarah Hannah, 1966-2007
On the Magic Square in Goethe's Faust
Recognizing Our Circle of Friends
ALSC Membership Policies at a Glance
Welcoming Our New Members
2007 Officers, Council, and Standing Committees
2007 Premium Membership Form
Spring 2007:
From the Guest Editor
Clash of the Titans: The Battle for the MFA
The President's Column
ALSC and the Internet
2007 Conference Schedule
Two Reasons to Join Us in Chicago:
Panel 4: The Culture of Cities: Revising the Chicago Story
Panel 3: Joseph Conrad
2007 Conference Notes
2007 Conference Book Display
2007 Conference Registration Form
From Athens to Oxford: LI Transition Complete
Report of the Nominations Committee
New Publications by Members
Hamletito: My Quest for an Hispanic Hamlet
From the GSL: A Quarterly Column by Jean Bocharova, ALSC Graduate Student Liaison
Greater Expectations: The ALSC Annual Fund
News & Announcements
A Neglected Dramaturge: Imre Madách (1823-1864)
Welcoming Our New Members
Recognizing Our Circle of Friends
ALSC Membership Policies at a Glance
2007 Premium Membership Form
Winter 2007:
From the Editor
2006 Presidential Address
"This Carp of Truth" and the World Without
The President's Column
ALSC and the Internet
Report on the Twelfth Annual Conference
Call for Papers - 2007 ALSC Conference
A Letter From Paris: "Their Eyes Are On The Prize"
The Valve Report
Oxford Expands Online Presence of Literary Imagination
Report of the ALSC Nominations Committee
Against Crooning: The State of Literature and How You Can Help
The 2006 ALSC Fund: A Success Thanks to Our Donors
The 2007 ALSC Fund
New Publications by Members
News & Announcements
A Neglected Author: John Jay Chapman: Cultural Critic (1862-1933)
Letters
ALSC Membership Policy for 2007
Welcoming Our New Members
2007 Premium Membership Form
Fall 2006:
From the Editor
Welcoming Frederick Crews: "On and Off the Literary Path"
The President's Column: In a Jocular Vein
ALSC and the Internet
Capital Campaign for LI Office in Boston
The Twelfth Annual Conference: A Preview
The Decline of Literature Teaching in K-12 Education and Why
the ALSC Must Help
Authors, Editors, Publishers
Friday at the Conference: Artist, Reader, Critics, and Editors
Connect in Stone Reader
Heather McHugh Returns to Conference Program
2006 Conference Program
2006 Conference Notes
News & Announcements
The Lie Circumstantial and the Lie Direct: Teaching The Odyssey
2006 Conference Pull-Out Poster
From the GSL: A Quarterly Column by Jean Bocharova, ALSC
Graduate Student
Liason
New Publications by Members
Much Ado About Fundraising
A Letter From Paris: "That Blazing Boulevard"
The Uses of Poetry
Welcoming Our New Members
2006 Membership Form
Summer 2006:
From the Editor
The Role of Language in Literature Studies
The President's Column: "A little touch of Harry"
ALSC and the Internet
Conference Schedule
2006 Conference Notes
The Sir Francis Drake: "A Regal Hotel in Downtown San Francisco"
2006 Conference Book Display
2006 Conference Registration Form
Literary Imagination: The LI Report: Sarah Spence on Office Changes
and Her Last Issue as Editor
From the GSL: A Quarterly Column by Jean Bocharova, ALSC Graduate Student
Liason
News & Announcements
New Publications by Members
Welcoming Our New Members
Capital Campaign for LI Office in Boston
ALSC Curriculum Committee Announces Survey
Much Ado About Fundraising
A Neglected Author: Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929)
Undergraduate Essay
Civilization and
Its Disconnects: Reconciliation of the Natural
and the Human
in D.H. Lawrence's Italy
Letters
2006 Membership Form
Spring 2006:
From the Editor
Questions, Questions, Questions
The President's Column
ALSC and the Internet
Welcoming Jean Bocharova, Special Liaison for Graduate Student Affairs
Conference Schedule
2006 Conference Notes
2006 Conference Book Display
2006 Conference Registration Form
In Memoriam: Anne Davidson Ferry
Literary Imagination: "Forthcoming"
Undergraduate Essay
Sleeplessness
and Subversion in Iliad X
Report of the Nominations Committee
Much Ado About Fundraising
News & Announcements
New Publications by Members
A Neglected Author: Felix Pollak (1909-1987)
Letters
Welcoming Our New Members
2006 Membership Form
Winter 2006:
From the Editor
2005 Presidential Address
The President's Column
ALSC and the Internet
Report on the Eleventh Annual ALSC Conference
The Panel on Ancient
Poetry and War
Readings: Robert
Fagles and Robert Mezey
The Seminar on
Experimental Poetics, 1580 to the Present
The Panel on Mythology
in the K-12 Classroom
The Panel on Writing
in the Wake of the Quixote
A Conversation
with Norman Mailer
The Panel on New
Approaches to Modernism
A Letter From Paris: Fabulous Stories
In Memoriam: Roger Shattuck
Literary Imagination: "Sounding at this Sumptuous Feast"
The Valve Report
Report of the Nominations Committee
ALSC Fundraising Report
News & Announcements
New Publications by Members
Undergraduate Essay
Across the Great
Divide
A Neglected Author: Ba Jin
Letters
Call for Papers: 2006 ALSC Conference, San Francisco, CA
Welcoming Our New Members
2006 Membership Form
Fall 2005:
From the Editor
The Eleventh Annual Conference: A Preview
Ancient
Poetry and War
Poetry and
Empire
New Approaches
to Modernism
The President's Column
ALSC and the Internet
Hats Off to Our Conference Chairman, Steven Shankman
Saturday At The Conference
Welcoming Norman Mailer
2005 Conference Program
2005 Conference Notes
Conference Registration Form
Literary Imagination on and off the web
New Publications by Members
News & Announcements
Tolkien and Coleridge: An Encounter
Undergraduate Essay
Tattoos and Cathedrals:
Art in Relation to the Human Body
A Neglected Author: John Cowper Powys
Letters
Bylaws of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
ALSC Officers, Council, and Committee Members
ALSC Membership Policy
The ALSC Continues to Grow
Welcome
to our New Members
Welcome
Back to our Returning Members
2005 Membership Form
Summer 2005:
From the Editor
Placing Naguib Mahfouz
The President's Column
ALSC and the Internet
2005 Conference Notes
Conference Registration Form
Literary Imagination: Journal Website to Debut Soon
The Valve Report: Building a Better Conversational Infrastructure
New Publications by Members
News & Announcements
Undergraduate Essays
"Arms and the Men I Sing": The Saint, Angel, and Professor
Shaken, Not Stirred: Tom Gunn, Jonson, and Horace
A Neglected Author: Anita Loos
Letters
Welcome to our New Members
2005 Membership Form
Spring 2005:
From the Editor
Welcoming Norman Mailer
The President's Column
ALSC and the Internet
Steven Shankman Announces Schedule for 2005 Conference
2005 Conference Notes
Conference Registration Form
Literary Imagination: Literary Distinction, Exchange Thrive in ALSC's
Magazine
Five for '05 ALSC Membership Drive
Compulsive Reading, Lively Conversation: Introducing The Valve
Report of the Committee on Nominations
New Publications by Members
News & Announcements
A Neglected Author: Stella Gibbons
A Letter From Paris: Writing and Remembrance: Three Narratives of the
Shoah
The Great Books Curriculum
Letters
Welcome to our New Members
2005 Membership Form
Winter 2005:
From the Editor
2004 Presidential Address A New Production
The President's Column
ALSC and the Internet
Report on The Tenth Annual ALSC Conference
The Panel on Creolization in Caribbean Literature
The Keynote Address: Robert Pinsky and "The Voice of Letters"
The Renaissance Humanism Panel
The Homer Panel: Life and Poetry with the Gods
The Writers and Masters Panel: On Mentors, Models, and...Marmosets?
The Stream of Consciousness Seminar
The Romanticism and Revolution Seminar
The Adaptation Seminar Film Adaptation: From I, Robot to I
Pagliacci
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Forum No. 2: A Sneak Preview
David Bromwich, Yale University
Rachel Hadas, Rutgers University
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Making Waves: A Letter from Paris
Dramatic Literature, Politics, and the Present Moment of Performance
Report of the 2005 Committee on Nominations
News and Announcements
New Publications by Members
A Neglected Author: Pearl S. Buck
In Memoriam: Anthony Hecht
Letters
ALSC Membership Policy
2005 Membership Form
Fall 2004:
From the Editor
A Poet Tunes Up:Enactment in Frances Cornford's "The Guitarist
Tunes Up"
ALSC and the Internet
Conference Schedule
Conference Notes
Conference Registration Form
News and Announcements
New Publications by Members
A Neglected Poet: Michael Longley
Call for Papers: Forum No. 2
Call for Papers: 2005 Conference
By-Laws of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
ALSC Officers, Council, and Committee Members
ALSC Membership Policy
2004 Membership Form
ALSC Office Staff Welcomes New Team Member
Summer 2004:
From the Editor
Results of Survey - Prompt Changes in Newsletter, Renewal Policy
ALSC and the Internet
The President's Column: Risky Business - Michael Valdez Moses
Important Announcement from Secretary William Flesch: Auto-Renewal
Now Optional
Conference Schedule
Robert Pinsky to Speak at the 2004 Conference
Call for Papers
Conference Notes
Conference Registration Form
News and Announcements
New Publications by Members
Help Wanted
Reading at Risk: A Call to Action - Mark Bauerlein
The ALSC Responds: A Call for Papers
The Importance of Being Earnest: Some Advice for Writers of Cover Letters
- Jeffrey Kahan
Neglected Authors - A Neglected Poet: William Cullen Bryant - Jonathan
Chaves
2004 Membership Form
Spring 2004:
From the Editor
Robert Pinsky and Boston University Provide Model Outreach Program -
Moana Minton
ALSC and the Internet
The President's Column - Michael Valdez Moses
Paul Cantor Announces Schedule for 2004 ALSC Conference
Conference Schedule
Robert Pinsky to Speak at the 2004 Conference
Call for Papers
Conference Notes
Conference Registration Form
News and Announcements
New Publications by Members
Local Meetings
2004 Membership Form
Fall 2003/Winter 2004:
From the Editor
Who Says We Have Nothing to Fear? - Stanley Stewart
ALSC and the Internet
The President's Column - Michael Valdez Moses
The Changing of the Secreterial Guard: A Warm Welcome/A Fond Farewell
Local Meetings
New Publications by Members
Report of the Committee on Nominations
News and Announcements
Forum: A Publication of the ALSC
ALSC Appeal to Graduate Students
Plea to Members: Action!
The New Orleans Conference Call for Papers
ALSC 2003 Conference Report
2004 ALSC Officers, Council, and Committee Members
Leo Tolstoy: "One May Write from the Head or from the Heart"
- Bob Blaisdell
2004 Membership Form
Call for Volunteers
Spring/Summer 2003:
From the Editor
The President's Column - Stanley Stewart
Needing to Know the Story - Eileen Tess Johnston
Accepting the Challenge: Will You Take the Pledge
ALSC Conference 2003 - Program
Conference Registration Form
Joseph Parisi to Speak at the 2003 Conference
News and Announcements
New Publications by Members
Local Meetings of the ALSC
Updated Report from the Committee on Nominations
ALSC and the Internet
Hall Wins Pushcart for Poem Published in Literary Imaginatiom
The 2003 Annual Members' Meeting Agenda
By-Laws of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
2003 Membership Form
Fall 2002/Winter 2003:
From the Editor
The President's Column - Stanley Stewart
A New Birth - James Engell
2002 Washington, D.C., Conference - Gregory A. Wilson
Keeping the Best - Dan Patrick
Call for Papers for Conference 2003
Local Meetings of the ALSC
New Publications by Members
News and Announcements
Report of the Committee on Nominations
Officers and Committees 2002-2003
Conference 2002 Photo Gallery
2003 Membership Form
Summer 2002:
From the Editor
The President's Column - James Engell
That Warning Voice - Christopher Ricks
ALSC Conference 2002 - Program
Conference Notes and Registration Form
News and Announcements
New Publications by Members
Updated Report of the Committee on Nominations
ALSC Special Committees
Initiatives by Members
Literary Imagination
ALSC and the Internet
By-Laws of the ALSC
Annual Members' Meeting
Membership Form
Spring 2002:
From the Editor
The President's Column - James Engell
ALSC Founding Scholar and Officer Retires
Times Literary Supplement - Review of Literary Imagination
John Barth to Speak at 2002 Conference
ALSC Conference 2002 - Program
Conference Notes and Registration Form
Report of the Nominating Committee
News and Announcements
New Books by Members
Member News
ALSC and the Internet
Literary Imagination
By-Laws of the ALSC
Fall 2001:
From the Editor
The President's Column - James Engell
The Work of Reading and Teaching - John Hollander
San Francisco 2001 - Virgil Nemoianu
Literary Imagination in the Times Literary Supplement
New Books by Members
News and Announcements
The Washington D. C. Conference
Summer 2001:
From the Editor
Writing Without Reading: The Decline of Literature in the
Composition Classroom - John C. Biggs
The President's Column
Conference Notes
Bloch earns 2001 PEN Award
New Officers
Updates on Our Website and Electronic Discussion Group
Spring 2001:
From the Editor
The President's Column - John Hollander
Literature and the New Ethics - James Engell
Conference Notes
Kermode to address the ALSC in San Francisco
Report of the Nominating Committee
New Books by Members
News and Announcements
In Memoriam
Literary Imagination
Updates on Website and Electronic Discussion Group
Winter 2001:
From the Editor
Literary Politics - Mary Lefkowitz
Thoughts on the ALSC Conference - Daniel Lowenstein
New Books by Members
Literary Imagination
News and Announcements
Tribune coverage of the Sixth Conference
ALSC to Publish Anthology of Exemplary Essays
Summer 2000:
From the Editor
Reading Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa - Michael Weingrad
New Books by Members
Conference Notes
Spring 2000:
From the Editor
Shakespearean Acting: Cue to Passion - Charles Marowitz
Tom Wolfe to address the ALSC in Chicago
Nominating Committee Report
Conference Notes
New Books by Members
News and Announcements
Winter 2000:
From the Editor
The President's Column - Mary Lefkowitz
The New York Conference - Rosanna Warren
Disciplined Thinking and Creative Inquiry - Austin Quigley
"Edel Sei der Mensch!" - A Toast to Goethe - Gerald Gillespie
News and Announcements
Summer 1999:
From the Editor
T. S. Eliot and Multiculturalism - Inger Sigrun Brodey
Homer's Epic: 2,800 Years Old and Still Relevant - Mary Lefkowitz
Sarah Spence: A Profile
Conference poster Abstracts
New Books by Members
Spring 1999:
From the Editor
Forward from Topsy-Turvydom - Christian Kopff
New Books by Members
Conference Notes
Nominating Committee Report
Fall 1998:
From the Editor
Skills in Reading - Eleanor Cook
The Toronto Conference - Gerald Gillespie
News and Announcements
Summer 1998:
From the Editor
The President's Column - Eleanor Cook
Conference Notes
News and Announcements
Spring 1998:
From the Editor
The President's Column - Eleanor Cook
The Humanities in Decline - James Engell and Anthony Dangerfield
Conference Notes
News and Announcements
Winter 1998:
From the Editor
Reading and the Literary Imagination - Robert Alter
Letters
The San Francisco Conference - William Chace
In Memoriam
Conferences
Announcements
Fall 1997:
From the Editor
Teaching Shakespeare - William Pritchard
The NCTE Standards in the States
Letters
News and Announcements
Job Openings
Spring/Summer 1997:
From the Editor
The President's Column - Robert Alter
The San Francisco Conference Program - Jeffrey Staiger
In Memoriam: Jean-Pierre Barricelli
Poster Papers
Travel Stipends
The Web; The Net
News and Announcements
Bequests
Winter 1997:
From the Editor
Reconstructing English - Norman Fruman
A Neglected Writer: Jack Schaefer - Louis Torres
Quadruple Troping - Eleanor Cook
The National Alumni Forum Survey
ALSC in the Press
ALSC News
Announcements
Fall 1996:
From the Editor
The President's Column - Robert Alter
A Call for Measured Activism - Roger Shattuck
Last Will and Testament of an Ex-literary Critic - Frank Lentricchia
Statement on the NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts
The Second National Conference - Paul Cantor
A Graduate Student Caucus - Lorrie Clark
Spring/Summer 1996:
From the Editor
The President's Column - Roger Shattuck
A Neglected Poet: Weldon Kees - Dana Gioia
Ethics and Literature - Kenneth Asher
Thoughts on Criticism, Language, and Poetry
News
Winter 1996:
From the Editor
The 1996 Conference, Boston
News and Announcements
In Memoriam: Joseph Brodsky
Fall 1995:
From the Editor
The President's Column - Roger Shattuck
The First National Conference
A Neglected Poet: Ivor Gurney - Rosanna Warren
ALSC in the Press
The ALSC Net
Graduate Students and Jobs
A Sister Organization: The AAH
News and Announcements
ALSC gets a Constitution
Summer 1995
From the Editor
The President's Column - Ricardo Quinones
Literature and Politics - Paul Cantor
The Conference Program
The By-Laws of the ALSC
Call to the Annual Meeting
Spring 1995:
From the Editor
The President's Column - Ricardo Quinones
A Short History of the ALSC - Norman Fruman
Nineteen Theses on Literature - Roger Shattuck
The Minnesota Conference - Jay Martin
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